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Video games have been blamed for contributing to the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States. But a new study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) suggests that certain blood-pumping video games can boost energy expenditures among children who are at high risk for unhealthy weight gain.

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Research out of the George Washington University, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals another piece of the puzzle in a genetic developmental disorder that causes behavioral diseases such as autism.

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Beverly Lunsford, a George Washington University assistant professor of nursing, believes a health care crisis is brewing.

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A viewpoint in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association discusses the issue of iodine deficiency in pregnant women in the U.S. and the potential negative health implications for both mothers and their children from this deficiency.

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Low-wage workers, who make up a large and growing share of the U.S. workforce, are especially vulnerable to financial hits that can result from on-the-job injuries and illnesses, according to a policy brief released today by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The policy brief, “Mom’s off Work ’Cause She Got Hurt: The Economic Impact of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses in the U.S.’s Growing Low-Wage Workforce,” was released along with a white paper showing that such workplace injuries and illnesses cost the nation more than $39 billion in 2010.

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New research, presented this morning at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, has identified important associations between Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria and endemic Burkitt Lymphoma (eBL) that may help researchers identify young children who are more susceptible to eBL.

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A new method for detecting abnormalities in unborn children is providing physicians with more information to analyze the results than conventional, microscopic testing, according to two George Washington University researchers.

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The Benjamin Rush Society at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences will host a physician debate the evening of Wed, Nov. 28 to discuss how social justice may conflict with the ethical standards of a doctor-patient relationship.

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The hydraulic system of trees is so finely-tuned that predicted increases in drought due to climate change may lead to catastrophic failure in many species. A recent paper co-authored by George Washington University Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Amy Zanne finds that those systems in plants around the globe are operating at the top of their safety threshold, making forest ecosystems vulnerable to increasing environmental stress.

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Imtiaz A. Khan, M.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received a $1.6 million federal grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the effects of microsporidia—opportunistic inter-cellular pathogens—that cause morbidity and mortality in HIV patients.

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Paul Brindley, Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was the recipient of a $1.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study the behavior of a parasitic worm, rampant in Southeast Asia, known to cause infections that contribute to liver cancer.

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WASHINGTON—A study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) indicates that full implementation of the Affordable Care Act would expand health insurance coverage for more low-income women, enabling more than a million women to obtain potentially life-saving screening for breast and cervical cancer. The study, “Health Care Reform and Women’s Insurance Coverage for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening,” was published in a recent issue of the journal Preventing Chronic Disease.

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Research at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences will be featured as a top paper in next week’s issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry for its groundbreaking discovery of a new regulator of the blood coagulation cascade.

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Jeremy Brown, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has received a federal grant to potentially give kidney stone patients more options with fewer complications.

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GW Heart and Vascular Institute, The Wireless Foundation, D.C.-area hospitals and D.C. Fire & EMS partner to reduce time from onset of chest pain to treatment.

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Stuart Kassan, M.D. ‘72, member of the George Washington University board of trustees and alumnus of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was named a Master of the American College of Rheumatology at a session of the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, in Washington, D.C.

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The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) recently received a $2.3 million contract to assess the baseline characteristics and outcomes of training medical residents in community-based settings, often located in regions struggling with a severe shortage of health care providers. These so-called Teaching Health Centers were created by the landmark Affordable Care Act in order to strengthen the primary care workforce, particularly for people living in underserved neighborhoods.

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This medical innovation, based on collaborative research by Drs. Marco Mercader, M.D., a cardiologist; Matthew Kay, D.Sc., a biomedical engineer; and Narine Sarvazyan, Ph.D., a physiologist, at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) and the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), has immediate groundbreaking potential in the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF), the most common irregular heartbeat affliction in the U.S.

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WASHINGTON – The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) recently named Rajiv N. Rimal, PhD, as Chair of the Department of Prevention and Community Health (PCH). He will also hold a faculty appointment as a professor in the Department. Dr. Rimal joins SPHHS from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH).

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The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services will soon be offering a fully web-based online Master of Public Health degree. The two year degree will be called MPH@GW and classes will start in May of 2013.

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The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Doctoral Physical Therapy program and Physician Assistant program will be hosting a health and wellness expo for persons living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ages 16 and up) on Sunday, Oct. 27 from 11am to 3pm. Caregivers are encouraged to attend, as well.

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The GW Cancer Institute was awarded a $500,000 grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to increase access to survivorship care for D.C.-area breast cancer survivors who have completed primary treatment.

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The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) has named Lance B. Price, PhD, as professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, an appointment that will accelerate the school’s research aimed at finding solutions for antibiotic resistance, a pressing global public health problem.

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For the first time in George Washington University history two faculty members from the Department of Health Policy in the School of Public Health and Health Services are elected simultaneously to the prestigious Institute of Medicine.

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A new report finds that Texas policies to exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from a state family planning program – the Women’s Health Program (WHP) – would result in leaving tens of thousands of women unable to get care.

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Today researchers from The George Washington University published a study showing that breast cancer patients can reduce potentially dangerous delays in the identification of breast cancer with the assistance of patient navigation services. Patient navigation—a service that helps patients overcome barriers to getting health care, including setting up appointments, dealing with health insurance, and helping with fears about cancer—led to a nearly four-fold reduction in the time it took to diagnose a suspicious breast lump, the new study found.

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Nurses and other hospital workers, especially those who work long hours or the night shift, often report trying to juggle the demands of the job and family obligations. A study out suggests that the higher the work-family conflict the greater the risk that health care workers will suffer from neck and other types of musculoskeletal pain.

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John Lachin, professor of biostatistics, epidemiology and statistics at the George Washington University, has been awarded a five-year, $134 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to conduct a clinical trial examining the long-term effectiveness of several glucose-lowering medications for treatment of people with type 2 diabetes. The grant sets a record as the largest sum award GW has ever received.

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he D.C. Department of Health (DOH) has released a study by George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services (SPHHS) indicating the high levels of marketing by antipsychotic drug manufacturers to Medicaid psychiatrists in the District of Columbia.

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Research comparing brain development in humans and our closest nonhuman primate relatives, chimpanzees, reveals how quickly myelin in the cerebral cortex grows, shedding light on the evolution of human cognitive development and the vulnerability of humans to psychiatric disorders, a GW professor finds. Myelin is the fatty insulation surrounding axon connections of the brain.

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Stuart Licht, professor of chemistry at the George Washington University’s Virginia Science and Technology Campus, has been awarded $1.7 million to continue studying methods of producing cement and other fuels that reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions into the environment.

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Today the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) announced the launch of the Childhood Asthma Leadership Coalition, a group of advocates and experts dedicated to raising awareness and advancing public policies to improve the health of children who suffer from asthma.

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The origin of Cerataspis monstrosa has been a mystery as deep as the ocean waters it hails from for more than 180 years. For nearly two centuries, researchers have tried to track down the larva that has shown up in the guts of other fish over time but found no adult counterpart. Until now.

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On Thursday, August 23, students at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science will help those in need at this year’s Commitment to Community Day.

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Collaboration to improve the integration of patient navigation and survivorship programs through the development and training of health care professionals.

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The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (GW) today released a report representing consensus findings from a cross-section of stakeholders that could help transform the process used to evaluate interventions to treat obesity, a public health crisis that now affects one in three adults. The report, “Obesity Drug Outcome Measures,” results from a stakeholder dialogue group convened by GW that, over a period of nine months, explored why development and approval of obesity drugs have proven so difficult.

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The George Washington University School of Nursing was recently awarded a three year grant totaling nearly $1 million from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration in support of the school’s Success in Nursing Education project, which aims to increase the number and diversity of nursing professionals, specifically African-American, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, male and economically disadvantaged students in the Washington D.C., and rural Virginia areas.

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Despite a twenty-five year old law that bans “patient dumping” the practice continues to put uninsured Americans at risk, according to a national team of researchers led by a professor at the George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services. Patient dumping is the practice of turning away or transferring uninsured patients with emergency medical conditions.

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Health coverage for the poorest Americans could be in jeopardy in many states as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last month on the Affordable Care Act, according to a new legal analysis. The report examines federal and state Medicaid options following the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in NFIB v Sebelius and appears in the August issue of the journal Health Affairs.

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Christina M. Puchalski, M.D., founder and director of the George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) and professor at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, authored the first comprehensive reference text to examine the growing area of spirituality in healthcare. Titled the “Oxford Textbook of Spirituality and Healthcare,” the textbook will serve as a guide to multidisciplinary practitioners and professionals in the healthcare community on this emerging field.

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The Supreme Court upheld the Obama Health Care Law. George Washington University has legal, health policy and political experts available to comment. The GW experts can comment on the legal aspects, as well as deeper political and health policy implications of the case and the decision. The following are GW experts on the health care law, the Supreme Court, health care and public/health policy, and the potential impact on the 2012 presidential campaigns.

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Keith Crandall, a renowned biologist and population geneticist, has been named founding director of the George Washington University Computational Biology Institute. This newly created position will further strengthen GW’s role as a leader in science and research in the region and nationally.